Pyrgus maculatus (Bremer & Grey, 1853)
Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Hesperiidae → subfamily Pyrginae → tribe Pyrgini → genus Pyrgus → species Pyrgus maculatus
Species name(s)
Pyrgus maculatus (Bremer & Grey, 1853) = maculatus (Bremer & Grey, 1853) = zona Mabille, 1875 = albistriga Mabille, 1876 = Pyrgus sinicus Butler, 1877 = Pyrgys maculata = Scelothrix albistriga Mabille, 1876 = Scelothrix amurensis Staudinger, 1892 = Pyrgus sinicus Butler 1877 = Hesperia tokachiana Matsumura, 1930 = Scelothrix zona Mabille, 1875. [3, 9, 187]
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Expansion
This species marks on the maps: 1.
Zoogeographical regions
Palaearctic.
Russia regions
#22. Krasnoyarsky; #25. Tuvinsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #40. Primorsky.
Flight time
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
Over-wintering stage
Pupa.
Detailed information with references
Distribution
- Regions of the Russian Federation: the Trans-Baikal, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny-Amur, Pribaikalskiy, Seaside, Mid-Amur, Tuva. [3].
- Outside the Russian Federation: Mongolia, China, Korea, Japan
It dwells on the meadows of river valleys, on the hills among the woodlands, dry zakustarennyh slopes. [2].
General info about Imago
- Often found on the flowers of plants of the genus Taraxacum (Dandelion) [2].
Imago lifespan
- 2 generation. Flight of the first - in Primorye from late April to early June, in the mountains of South. Sibiri- from mid-May to early July, the second - July-August [2].
General info about Larva
- The adult caterpillar light green, in single short white hairs. The second segment and the first pair of thoracic legs reddish brown, the other 4 thoracic legs light green with black claws. Spherical head, velvety black. The body dark green stripes along the back and one on each side. [2].
Larva food plants / other food objects
- Plants of the family Rosaceae (Rosaceae) in Primorye - plants of the genus Spiraea (Spiro) - S. ussuriensis (Spiraea Ussuri), S. media (Spiraea average) in Japan- Potentilla freyniana (Potentilla Frayn) [79].
- + B Amur and Japan - Rubus idaeus (raspberry) [2].
Pupa
- Pupa brown in sizom, bluish-white powdery coating.
Pupation in the cradle of the faded, a web of intertwined leaves [2].
Egg
- The female lays one egg from the bottom sheet KR [2].
Overwintering stage
Subspecies of Pyrgus maculatus
- Pyrgus maculatus bocki (Oberthür). [9]
- P. m. thibetanus (Oberthür). [9]
Authors
Photos:
Irina Nikulina, Vladimir Bobow.
Text data: Peter Khramov, Irina Nikulina.
The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.
References
- [2] Коршунов Ю. П. Булавоусые чешуекрылые Северной Азии. М.: КМК, 2002
- [3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
- [9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
- [79] Tuzov, Bogdanov, Devyatkin, Kaabak, Korolev, Murzin, Samodurov, Tarasov, 1997. Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories; Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Satyridae; Volume 1
- [187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
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